Residents gather during a minimum wage rally outside the district offices of U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., in St. Joseph, Mich., Tuesday, April 1, 2014.

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Bills to raise Michigan's minimum wage are multiplying in Lansing with three introduced in the last two weeks to hike it to $8.15 an hour.

But supporters of a petition drive to put a hike in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour on the November ballot said at least one of those bills is nothing but "dirty games."

The Raise Michigan coalition, which is spearheading the petition drive, said it has enough signatures to get on the ballot, but it will continue to collect more to provide a comfortable cushion beyond the 258,088 valid signatures needed. ...